http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Human intelligence cannot be explained by the size of the brain's frontal lobes, say researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-human-brain-frontal-lobes-large.html Neuroscience Mon, 13 May 2013 15:00:08 EST news287657730 (Medical Xpress)—You may be more than a single number, according to a team of Western-led researchers. Considered a standard gauge of intelligence, an intelligence quotient (IQ) score doesn't actually provide an accurate measure of one's intellect, according to a landmark study – the largest of its kind – led by Adrian Owen of the Brain and Mind Institute at Western. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-debunking-iq-myth.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 07 May 2013 07:30:37 EST news287130628 After conducting the largest online intelligence study on record, a Western University-led research team has concluded that the notion of measuring one's intelligence quotient or IQ by a singular, standardized test is highly misleading. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-debunk-iq-myth.html Neuroscience Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:00:05 EST news275136671 Human intelligence and behavior require optimal functioning of a large number of genes, which requires enormous evolutionary pressures to maintain. A provocative hypothesis published in a recent set of Science and Society pieces published in the Cell Press journal Trends in Genetics suggests that we are losing our intellectual and emotional capabilities because the intricate web of genes endowing us with our brain power is particularly susceptible to mutations and that these mutations are not being selected against in our modern society. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-humans-slowly-surely-intellectual-emotional.html Genetics Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:00:04 EST news271942686 (Medical Xpress)—Contrary to the prevailing theories that music and language are cognitively separate or that music is a byproduct of language, theorists at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) advocate that music underlies the ability to acquire language. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-theory-music-underlies-language-acquisition.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:34:36 EST news267204867 A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to efficiently adapt to uncertain, changing and open-ended environments. In such environments, efficient adaptive behavior often requires considering multiple alternative behavioral strategies, adjusting them, and possibly inventing new ones. These reasoning, learning and creative abilities involve the frontal lobes, which are especially well developed in humans compared to other primates. However, how the frontal function decides to create new strategies and how multiple strategies can be monitored concurrently remain largely unknown. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-creativity-human-decision-making.html Neuroscience Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:00:05 EST news252083355 University of Manchester scientists, working with colleagues in Edinburgh and Australia, have provided the first direct biological evidence for a genetic contribution to people’s intelligence. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-reveals-genetic-link-human-intelligence.html Genetics Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:21:32 EST news232165264